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From: Jan Wielemaker <jan@swi.psy.uva.nl>
Organization: SWI, University of Amsterdam
To: "Richard A. O'Keefe" <ok@atlas.otago.ac.nz>, Gilbert.Gosseyn@acm.org,
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On Mon, 05 Mar 2001, Richard A. O'Keefe wrote:
>On Sun, 04 Mar 2001, Gilbert Gosseyn wrote:
>
>Good grief!  You're not trying to build the Games Machine, are you?
>Maybe you could tell me some time if I'm doing the cortico-thalamic pause
>correctly.
>
>Jan wrote:
>
>	>cannot create parms.h%: error 22
>	>make: *** [parms.h] Error 2
>	
>	No clue what error 22 means.  Permission denied?
>	
>In most UNIX systems, an errno value of 22 means EINVAL.
>Some system call was given a bad argument.
>
>  [EINVAL]  Invalid argument
>      Indicates that an invalid argument was passed to the function (such as,
>      the requested argument does not exist or is out of bounds or is not a
>      regular file, or that the result would be invalid). This error may also
>      indicate one or more of the following:  [deleted].

Sure, but how Unix is this thing?  Make is doing

parms.h:	Makefile
	@echo <some string> > $@%

So the only invalid argument I can think of is that the % character is
not allowed in a filename?  Or a bug in make or the shell.

	--- Jan

